I randomly heard this weekend 2mg of copper taken 2-3x/day (4-6mg total) can help reverse some greying after a few months. YMMV, but worth checking out.
Lol I'm not actively seeking it, I don't mind the distinguishing features lol. But the only thing different in my life is SNS products
Okay, so this is weird that you asked that because I've had the same thing happen to me. A year ago, my beard had a lot of white in it and now it has almost none. I hadn't said anything about it because I thought it may be a weird me thing, but it went from quite a bit of white to pretty much blonde again like it used to be.
That was honestly my guess as well, I've added in all of the products gradually, but all signs point to that. I even sent a picture to my ex wife and she said "wtf?!" Very interesting. The thicken plots
I'd like some hair growth please.
Adding in that I'm 1.5 months into pepti plex, for posterity reasons in case eventually google leads someone here
I'm curious to see if on your end it continues. On my end, it has continued and is very obvious.
I'll start taking more pictures on a weekly basis. I noticed 2 weeks ago, and the change since seems fairly dramatic.
I've got a pretty big beard and its been a dramatic change in the color for me too. I'd found it odd/interesting for a long while now. I'm curious to see if yours continues to progress too.
I'm going to keep the beard around to see how this progresses, I'm not sure if it's ramping up or just becoming more noticeable. Very interesting stuff though.
You need to get you some of that Just For (OLD) Men white beard dyeI am over here trying to get that full white beard, no pepti-plex for me I guess.
back in 2019 when I owned a gym as a side business I would have been 37 or turning 37 that year and all the sudden I started seeing grey hairs pop up for the first time in my life. also first time i experienced hair shedding. Sold the gym and handed keys to new owner on the 1 yr anniversary and I $hit-you-not, my grey hairs disappeared, all of them. Only in the past 6-8 months now at turning 42 am I seeing them pop back up where they were 5 years ago.
that's kinda where I was going with that tbh, although I would have expected the stress of divorce and moving to be the bigger issue.
what is real estate and the rental market like out there? I noticed my wife's company has a decent rental listed for like $1800 and that blew my mind cause it seems like everyone else is starting out around $2500 now for rents.
Man, this area I'm in, Banner Elk NC, is a bit of an anomaly. It's a huge tourist destination, the 2 closest cities are Boone (Where App State University is) and Johnson City, TN (Eastern TN State University). Houses are selling like nuts here, but it's all second/third homes for mostly Floridians. They rent them out as short term rentals, but all of this causes our taxes and property values to skyrocket while no one is actually living here year round. Most of the local industry is hospitality based, IE not a lot of people make good money, and so locals are being priced out causing a shortage in workers as well.
and Californians... i know some that moved out there. Our town here in WA is literally about 50% Californian transplants. My wife calls them locusts lol. When we go to AZ I'm hesitant to tell locals I'm from WA and they always say "oh that's fine, you're not from Cali".
yup, see above. The worst of it started about 1-2 years after I moved to Pierce County so my commute went from 25 minutes to 90 minutes in a matter of a couple years. Tacoma was the fastest growing city in the nation I think for the 2 year prior to covid.
That's insane. I mean I get it, other than wanting to live amongst so many other humans. I can't imagine 10-15 years ago saying "Tacoma is going to be a desired place to live"and Californians... i know some that moved out there. Our town here in WA is literally about 50% Californian transplants. My wife calls them locusts lol. When we go to AZ I'm hesitant to tell locals I'm from WA and they always say "oh that's fine, you're not from Cali".
yup, see above. The worst of it started about 1-2 years after I moved to Pierce County so my commute went from 25 minutes to 90 minutes in a matter of a couple years. Tacoma was the fastest growing city in the nation I think for the 2 year prior to covid.
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I don't think anyone saw that coming lol. in 2016 when I first moved to Tacoma you could pick up houses on hilltop for like $120k (3bdrm, 2+ bath etc). I told myself I was going to take a year to organize life then try to get some rentals. Those houses had doubled and tripled by 2017.
Lol I don’t think those would break 200k here, in the current market. In 2020 they would have been ~130. Unless they were adjacent to one of the campuses.
which is likely where they should be. Our house has a ridiculous valuation and it absolutely sucks. On the one hand a person can say "but all that equity", but my annual property tax bill is insanely high, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. especially with todays rates, everyones sorta trapped. it's like you realize that even if you retire and pay off your mortgage, for the rest of your life you will have a property tax bill that's still basically a mortgage. my wife's elderly retired relatives have a property tax bill of about $14k/year on a paid off house. that's literally almost double what my sick bachelor pad brick walled loft style condo mortgage was in tacoma in 2016.
Unless you happen want to move somewhere else very different with much lower prices, everyone is getting hosed.
anything within a drive of water is just highway robbery now. we did even look in mexico at a couple places but real estate is getting super expensive there as well in any of the developed areas that are reasonably close to an airport.
Glad you were able to get after it today! I can imagine the stress is pretty high trying to sell and move etc. etc. if you can get back in the groove of going and help get rid of the stress on the weights!I've trained twice now in the last month
6/4/24
Main - Bench
Supplemental - Bench
- 5 x 110lb
- 5 x 140
- 5 x 170
- 5 x 180
- 5 x 215
- 5 x 245
Assistance
- 10 x 5 @ 185
Legs/Stuff
- Kroc row 5 x 10 @ 100
- DB fly 5 x 10 @ 30
Time 50min
- Super set cable crunch/oblique cable pushdown
Weight 206.2
This was hard, I've fallen out of the groove pretty hard form everything but gave my all today. The gym was 76F degrees, and the damn water fountain was at a trickle. Anyway, I made it through, but it was a struggle and I moved way too fast.
In other news, everything is settled with the house I'm trying to buy, last thing is I just need an offer on my place. The stress of showings, let alone getting the house ready, was wrecking me and my ability to get out to train. This week is a new chapter and I'm getting on with it! Unfortunately, I'm going to run out of my supplements mostly before next pay period thanks to making a quite large due diligence/earnest money payment. Yay adulting.
It's kind of funny, my Garmin actually shows lower stress levels than I've had in the history that I've had it, my hair color is coming back in my beard, and I've been sleeping like the dead. I don't take Stress and Anxiety that often, so I don't think it's just that lol.
Kinda sounds like you're right and she was the issue after all.
This exact thing happened to me about a week and a half ago, minus the ER. My HR was actually lower than usual for me at mid to low 50s, usual resting (sleeping) is 55-58, but my chest was getting tight, cold sweats, breathing felt labored. My blood pressure was elevated, not incredible, but I'm usually spot on if not low for my age. Weirdest thing, I drank some ice water, hit my weed vape, and laid outside flat on the grass. I'm still not exactly sure what happened there, I'm writing it up as an anxiety attack.
might very well have been, when I was running 2 businesses I experienced anxiety attacks, not super severe, except the sleepless nights for a year. they felt like my brain was trying to kill itself. the panic attacks contrasted in that I was getting major shots of adrenaline. a 15-30 minute panic attack would knock me out and I'd sleep for like 4 hours. This was when I was in peak physical shape and still competing locally a lot. I researched my options a lot and the drug based solutions looked very permanent. lots of discussion on chemically rewiring your brain, etc. I hadn't thought of or tried THC, instead I figured hey it's the fight or flight drug right? Lets train it to fight. so every time I felt a panic attack start, like driving down i5 in traffic, I turned on the nastiest heaviest metal I could and tried to get angry until it faded. that ended up being my self medication.
I probably could have done more weight, but holy hell do I need to rebuild my muscle memory. Gym owner walked up to me and swore me out for not seeing me for over a month, then coming in and rocking out a set at 335 for squats lol.
might see if @sns8778 has feedback. Alpha Gel has consistently been the easiest TD for me. sometimes i put it on my feet but I know Steve recently mentioned that if you truly have a reaction then hives on the feet might be worse. such a weird reaction, I haven't had that issue at all.
Yeah I'm not too happy about it, especially after most of a bottle! I did send him a message as well.
I feel you on the good mornings man. I wish I had access to a SSB bar. I fight the regular bar but I’m keeping after it!6/5/24
Main - Squat
Supplemental - OHP
- 5 x 155lb
- 5 x 195
- 5 x 230
- 5 x 255
- 5 x 295
- 5 x 335
Assistance
- 10 x 5 @ 135
Abs/Legs
- pullups 5x5 (mostly jump up, and slowly lowered.
- Single arm tricep extensions 5x10 30lb
Time - 1hr 8min
- SSB Good Mornings 5x5 185
Weight - 209.2
Saw Dr Mike doing good mornings on EliteFTS this morning and just had to get some of that. First time touching the SSB
Completely different note, Alpha Gel is REALLY fucking with my shoulders these days, I've had hives off and on for 2 weeks under my beard and couldn't figure it out, it's ungodly annoying. It has to to be the cause. Anyway, rotated it to my love handles, and carnitine to the clavicles and all seems well today. Not sure if it's the heat, humidity, or whatever, but I'm over the itchy!
Finally, enjoy the soothing, melodic tunes of Revocation:
I've only ever used a standard bar for them, so I'm not entirely sure there was a massive difference lol. Maybe if I did a side by side
I guess I have a problem with the bar trying to roll forward on me, where the SSB looks like it would just stay locked in place.
Oh that's a very fair point. I have done good mornings in a long while, but I liked to use DBs for the grip aspect
Also to be fair I have only tried them a few times and I’m not very familiar with the movement yet
What I mentioned in that other thread wasn't related to hives, that person was having a reaction he equated to feeling like a sunburn to another company's product.
that's always been a great approach for me-
